Tema 3

Question 1

What is Tema 3?

Answer 1

Modernismo y Generación del 98 (siglo XIX)

Question 2

What are the three main sections of this theme?

Answer 2

1. Crises of the time
2. Modernismo en literature
3. Generación del 98

Question 3

What name should you think of when you read “Modernismo en literatura”?

Answer 3

Rubén Darío

Question 4

What name should you think of when you read “Generación del 98”?

Answer 4

1. Miguel de Unamuno
2. Antonio Machado
3. Ramón del Valle Inclán
4. Carmen de Burgos

Question 5

What was happening before modernism (4)?

Answer 5

1. first worker movements
2. Tension that would lead to the first world war
3. End of the Empire, 1989
4. “Dos Españas”

Question 6

What was happening in the crisis del final de siglo (finisecular)?

Answer 6

1. economic, political, and social problems
2. young people were rejecting reality
   - modernistas: looking for beauty
   - generación del 98: reflecting and looking for solutions to the problems

Question 7

Images of modernismo

Answer 7

Question 8

What were the 5 sources of background for modernism?

Answer 8

1. Parnasianismo
2. Simbolismo
3. Literatura norteamericana, inglesa, italiana
4. Arcipreste de Hita y Jorge Manrique
5. Gustavo Adolfo Béquer y Rosalía del Castro

Question 9

What are some themes of modernism?

Answer 9

1. beauty against mediocrity
2. sentidos: music, color, smells
3. escaping (to far away or in the past)
4. cosmopolitismo
5. sentimientos íntimios, meloncholía, nostalgia
6. sensualidad
7. decadente: otoño, puesta de sol

Question 10

missing in between

Question 11

Who is Ramón de Valle-Inclán

Answer 11

Un escritor de modernismo

Question 12

What were the works of Valle-Inclán?

Answer 12

Primeras obras modernistas: sonatas- 4 novelas breves, Marqués de Bardomín

Question 13

What was the style of Ramón de Valle-Inclán?

Answer 13

fuerte y violento

1. comedias bárbaras
2. triglogía “la guerra carlista”